FEMA ICS 700 EXAM PREPARATION PACK 2026
KEY CONCEPTS AND REVISION NOTES
◉ Command can be carried out in what two ways?
Answer: 1. Single command (most common)
2. Unified command
◉ What is the Incident Commanders role at an incident?
Answer: To set the incident objectives, strategies, and priorities.
Overall responsibility for the incident.
◉ What is the operations section role at an incident?
Answer: Conduct operations to reach the incident objectives.
Establishes the strategies and tactics and directs all operational
resources.
◉ What is the planning sections role at an incident?
Answer: Support the incident action planning process by tracking
resources, collecting and analyzing information, and maintaining
documentation.
◉ What is the role of the logistics section at an incident?
,Answer: Provide resources and services to support the achievement
of the incident objectives.
◉ What is the role of the finance/administration section at an
incident?
Answer: Monitor costs related to the incident. Provide accounting,
procurement, time recording, and cost analysis.
◉ Who makes up the command staff in the ICS structure?
Answer: Information officer
Safety officer
Liaison officer
◉ The General staff is made up of white 4 sections?
Answer: 1. Operations section
2. Planning section
3. Logistics section
4. Finance/administration section
◉ What is the only position that is always staffed in ICS
applications?
Answer: The incident commander.
,◉ The general staff report directly to who?
Answer: The incident commander.
◉ The command staff report directly to who?
Answer: The incident commander.
◉ When using the incident command system what are used to divide
an incident geographically?
Answer: Divisions.
◉ When using the incident command system what are used to
describe functional areas of operation?
Answer: Groups.
◉ When using ICS what are used when the number of
divisions/groups exceeds the span of control and can be either
geographical or functional?
Answer: Branches.
◉ The person in charge of a division/group is a designated as what?
Answer: A supervisor.
◉ Branches are managed by who?
, Answer: A Branch Director.
◉ Resources can be organized in what three ways?
Answer: 1. Task force.
2. Strike team.
3. Single resources.
◉ What is a task force?
Answer: A combination of MIXED resources with common
communications operating under the direct supervision of a leader.
◉ What is a strike team?
Answer: A set number of resources of the SAME kind and type with
common communications operating under the direct supervision of
a strike team leader.
◉ The planning section can be further broken down into what four
units?
Answer: 1. Resource unit
2. Situation unit
3. Documentation unit
4. Demobilization unit
5. Technical specialists (can be added here as well)
KEY CONCEPTS AND REVISION NOTES
◉ Command can be carried out in what two ways?
Answer: 1. Single command (most common)
2. Unified command
◉ What is the Incident Commanders role at an incident?
Answer: To set the incident objectives, strategies, and priorities.
Overall responsibility for the incident.
◉ What is the operations section role at an incident?
Answer: Conduct operations to reach the incident objectives.
Establishes the strategies and tactics and directs all operational
resources.
◉ What is the planning sections role at an incident?
Answer: Support the incident action planning process by tracking
resources, collecting and analyzing information, and maintaining
documentation.
◉ What is the role of the logistics section at an incident?
,Answer: Provide resources and services to support the achievement
of the incident objectives.
◉ What is the role of the finance/administration section at an
incident?
Answer: Monitor costs related to the incident. Provide accounting,
procurement, time recording, and cost analysis.
◉ Who makes up the command staff in the ICS structure?
Answer: Information officer
Safety officer
Liaison officer
◉ The General staff is made up of white 4 sections?
Answer: 1. Operations section
2. Planning section
3. Logistics section
4. Finance/administration section
◉ What is the only position that is always staffed in ICS
applications?
Answer: The incident commander.
,◉ The general staff report directly to who?
Answer: The incident commander.
◉ The command staff report directly to who?
Answer: The incident commander.
◉ When using the incident command system what are used to divide
an incident geographically?
Answer: Divisions.
◉ When using the incident command system what are used to
describe functional areas of operation?
Answer: Groups.
◉ When using ICS what are used when the number of
divisions/groups exceeds the span of control and can be either
geographical or functional?
Answer: Branches.
◉ The person in charge of a division/group is a designated as what?
Answer: A supervisor.
◉ Branches are managed by who?
, Answer: A Branch Director.
◉ Resources can be organized in what three ways?
Answer: 1. Task force.
2. Strike team.
3. Single resources.
◉ What is a task force?
Answer: A combination of MIXED resources with common
communications operating under the direct supervision of a leader.
◉ What is a strike team?
Answer: A set number of resources of the SAME kind and type with
common communications operating under the direct supervision of
a strike team leader.
◉ The planning section can be further broken down into what four
units?
Answer: 1. Resource unit
2. Situation unit
3. Documentation unit
4. Demobilization unit
5. Technical specialists (can be added here as well)
